How the fatality risk for a car driver in collisions between cars and light trucks or vans depended on certain characteristics of light trucks are studied. The fatality risk was measured by the ratio of killed drivers to involved drivers. Information on killed drivers was taken from FARS, on involved drivers from GES. Because of incomplete information, cases from the Northeast and California could not be used. The fatality risk is influenced by vehicle weight, driver age, driver sex, speed limit, and other factors. Because they could confound the findings, mathematical models to adjust for their influence were developed. Without such adjustments, the fatality risk from a car driver in a collision with a SUV was 3.3 times as high as in a collision with a car; 2.6 times as high in a collision with a pickup truck; and 2.3 times as high in a collision with a van. After adjusting, these ratios were 1.6, 1.4, and 1.4.


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    Titel :

    Aggressivity Versus Crash Test Parameters of Light Trucks and Vans


    Beteiligte:
    H. Joksch (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2002


    Format / Umfang :

    206 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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